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| I even stopped typing to do this, and I realized my writing made no sense because I was so discombobulated by it all. (This was observed on October 7, 2025.) |
I kid you not.
Anyhoo, here's the original thing I noticed when I popped up Blogger today this afternoon*
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| On October 7, 2025. |
Under the header of "Who asked for this crap?", I was almost instantly annoyed by this new Blogger "feature".
How about Widgets that are kept up to date, or you can put YouTube Channels (or other social media (tm) channels) into your blog without having to figure out the arcane systems on your own?
Or, in my case, how about bringing my freaking blog into Google Search itself? You know, the thing you tout as the best search engine on the internet?
But noooo... We get an option to add Google Search and Google Search links and previews to our blogs, thus creating "a more engaging reading experience with the help of Google".
Right. Because long form writing needs to be turned into something more "engaging". (As in... "shorter".)
/sigh
*I was not home for part of the day, taking my mom's car in for maintenance.
I saw Heartless post about this earlier today and I had no idea where he'd seen it so I started a draft post to look for it and there was no sign of it. And now I've read your post and looked again and I still can't see it, even with the screenshots to guide me. I don't even have that little bell for the Notices. I see it's in beta though. Maybe not everyone has access yet or perhaps you have to opt in to see beta features?
ReplyDeleteYou know, that's even more amusing since you're visible to the Google search engine, but I'm not.
DeleteWell, if they want this to simply vanish into the ether, they picked the right blog...
I noticed this on my Neverwinter blog when I dusted that one off, but it doesn't show on any of my actually active blogs, which I thought was an interesting choice. I pressed it just to see what would happen but didn't notice any visible changes to my post, so just discarded it. Either it doesn't work (it is in beta after all) or it does something wonky. But yeah, I had a similar reaction - this is what Google decided to add to Blogger in 2025?
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